As the sweetest voice of B-town turns a year older, we bring you a compilation of songs which highlight the varied styles of singing of Shreya Ghoshal

Born on March 12, 1984 Shreya Ghoshal made an early entry into Bollywood at the age of 16. After winning the singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, she got a quick break in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas, in which she became the playback voice of both Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Madhuri Dixit.

Shreya made her mark with her silky voice and created a space for herself by singing romantic, sensual and soulful numbers. Over the last couple of years, Shreya has ventured out of her comfort zone and sung some peppy fast-paced numbers too. The singer already has an enviable list of brilliant numbers to her credit. But we pick 9 of her songs that we like best. What’s your favourite? Tell us!

We are talking about Bebo’s item number in Karan Johar’s Brothers. Read on to find out the full story…

That, Kareena Kapoor is featuring in an item number in Karan Johar’s Brothers is known to all. While the film is a two-hero project starring Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra, Bebo will be seen grooving alongside the latter in a special track. And the latest development we get to hear is, Ms Khan is rehearsing to ape Katrina Kaif in the song.

The Brother’s song is being choreographed by Ganesh Acharya, who also has Chikni Chameli to his credit. So getting candid in one of his recent interactions with a leading daily, the ace choreographer claimed that this number of Kareena will be 2015′s ‘Chikni Chameli. Now isn’t that something?

This reminds me of Kareena’s confession on Koffee With Karan last year. Remember how she had quipped saying she would love to perform on Chikni Chameli at Katrina and Ranbir Kapoor’s wedding?

But only time will tell if Bebo will succeed in breaking Kat’s Chikni Chameli sensation. What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments and watch out this space for latest updates on this story!

On the occasion of India’s Barbie doll’s birthday, we bring you five best songs of the birthday gal from South Indian cinema

Katrina Kaif may be the most sought after heroine of B-town in recent years. But did you know the Dhoom 3 chick has a South connection? Before tasting success in Hindi films, back in 2004 Katrina’s debut Telugu film Malliswari with Venkatesh was a huge hit. Before her Chikini chameli days, the pretty lass had did some hot numbers down south.

Bollywoodlife takes you on flashback mode to witness Katrina in action from Telugu and Malayalam movies:

Gundello gulabila mullu from Malliswari

Malliswari was Katrina’s first film in Tollywood. Cast opposite Venkatesh, Katrina stole millions of hearts with her fresh face, lovely smile and svelte figure. The Bang Bang diva’s beach song Gundello gulabila mullu is one of her sexiest song from the film. Ms Kaif looks ravishing in the songs and grabs our attention with her sexy dance moves. The hottie set the temperatures soaring as she emerges from the sea looking drop dead gorgeous.

Chinuku laga from Allari Pidugu

After receiving a rousing welcome in Tollywood, Katrina signed a film opposite Balakrishna titled Allari Pidugu. The song Chinuku laga where she shook her leg with Balki is probably one of the hottest songs from Telugu cinema and certainly hottest Katrina song from South. The sexy kitten didn’t show any signs of discomfort on dancing with an older star.

Mallelona Illeyarra from Allari Pidugu

This song with Balakrishna was sexy Sheila‘s first song on the ice caped mountains of Switzerland. Katrina Kaif stands out in the song with her seductive moves and proved that a woman can look hot even with minimal skin show.

Nee navvule vennelani mallelani from Malliswari

This song is one of the first saree clad songs of Katrina Kaif. The Ek Tha Tiger babe looked ravishing in the yellow and blue sarees, proving that she can pull off traditional dresses in style.

Mathappove from Balram Vs Tharadas

The Kamli babe had the honour of being cast opposite to big hero like Mammooty in her first Malyalam movie. Katrina displayed her dancing skills in this party song looking like a cute girl next door.

On her birthday we give you a scoop on her favourite things….

Katrina Kaif celebrates her birthday with boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor in South of France today. We are sure she’s having a great time with the love of her life. BollywoodLife dishes out some inside stuff on the little known things about this Chikni Chameli.

Katrina loves organic food. That killer waistline in Chikni Chameli and those toned legs in Kamli didn’t come by eating samosas and having extra cheese on that sandwich. Kat follows a strict diet even when she’s not shooting. She loves organic food and is extremely health conscious about her diet. Before the shoot of Chikni Chameli, Katrina was on a strict diet that consisted of boiled vegetables, broccoli and soup! – Despite having a sweet tooth she avoids eating sweets. Cup cakes are her favourite and she loves eating them on cheat days when she’s not gymming.

Her favourite style statement is dressing in cool track pants. She always puts her comfort before anything and has a huge collection of comfy track pants and hoodies. She also has a big collection of cute T-shirts and tank tops that she shops whenever she’s travelling abroad. The Dhoom 3 babe prefers wearing flats over heels as it makes her feel easy and comfortable. The only time she wears heels is during shoots.

Katrina has six sisters and one brother named Michael who she’s really fond of. Among all her siblings Kat is the most close to her brother who is an outdoor guy and loves adventure sports and rock climbing.

She loves to throw impromptu parties for her friends and surprise them. Katrina is fiercely loyal to her friends and knows all their birthdays. She also knows what are their favourite things and buys them some really expensive gifts.

Her favourite holiday destination is Europe and loves to visit France and Italy. She also keeps visiting London where her family stays.

She has had an interesting journey in Bollywood from Boom to Dhoom and is one of the top stars in B-town, but looks like she still has a long way to go

Katrina Kaif has been rated lowest for acting prowess by most of her tinsel town colleagues and co-stars. And even though she might be a front runner for the No.1 heroine spot it looks like she stills lags behind in the best actor category. So, it’s not really surprising to only watch Kat perform at award functions and never receive an award for acting in a decade long career.This Shiela’s jawaani has created dhoom and her star power is on a boom, but with B-towners not rating her high on acting in Karan Johar’s chat show Koffee with Karan 4 must definitely stand out like a sore thumb, hai na?

Our Chikini Chameli is however unperturbed, in fact she says, “It’s okay… I mean, if that’s what they feel, that’s what they feel. People are entitled to their opinion, and I can’t have an opinion on someone else’s opinion.” Looks like Ms Kaif is happy doing what she doing and with big banner projects in her kitty and top actors featuring opposite her, we aren’t surprised that she couldn’t care less. However, we wish that the Bang Bang actor finally takes a cue and proves her critics and Bollywoodwallahs wrong who rated her low.

And a few awards rather than just endorsements wouldn’t hurt, na? So next time Kat when somebody takes a jibe at your acting, we hope you are affected and decide to prove them wrong. May be she could do with a little help from beau Ranbir Kapoor and his famous Kapoor khandaan.

The Dhoom:3 star added one more feather to her cap

Katrina Kaif has topped the Time Celebex rating index once again. She has recently wowed the audience with her performance in Dhoom:3.Times Celebex is considered to be one of the most unbiased rating systems. They rate the star on their popularity with respect to their film releases, brand endorsements and public appearances. It also evaluates box-office performances among many other categories. The previous month was ruled by Priyanka Chopra because of her superb performance in Krrish 3.

The Kamli actor although has taken the crown from the ex-miss world this month. The Chikni chameli girl added another feather to her cap by winning this crown. The actress will be next seen in Jagga Jasoos, Bang Bang, Fitoor and Phantom. Seems like she has a full packed year ahead of her. Hai na peeps?

BollywoodLife had earlier reported about the proposal RK Jr had planned on his birthday to ask his lady love’s hand in marriage, looks like Ranbir used some of our tips to woo Kat

Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif are currently out for another holiday in New York, well after the leaked bikini pictures of Ranbir-Kat guess this duo’s relationship has grown even stronger. No, we ain’t making statements just like that; remember how the Barfi! actor had defended his lady love and even praised her bikini look. Ranboo even went on record to say, “I don’t think I will go in for an arranged marriage” and “I can give my life for Katrina Kaif!“. And then various reports that followed about how the Besharam star wanted his real life love to be cast opposite him on reel too. The latest we hear is that there might just be loud wedding bells ringing at the Krishna Raj bunglow in Bandra next year. The buzz is that Chikni Chameli wants to settle and has kept her dates free after June for next year, Kat isn’t taking any work commitments. And that Ranbir is trying hard to persuade daddy-mommy Rishi and Neetu Kapoor for this marriage. Well, didn’t RK confess on various talk shows how his parents don’t interfere in his love life, marriage of course is a little different.

While Ranbir has always maintained that he is single until he gets hitched, we wonder if Kat is trying to get her beau to finally make the commitment. As for the Saawariyaa, we don’t know which of his statements should we believe, he told us about not celebrating his birthday but he did. So we know what to expect when RK denies these rumours about his marriage with Katrina Kaif next year. Don’t we?

B-town’s favourite item queen recently shot for the much talked about title song Ram chahe leela of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s costume drama – and this item number promises to be high on sensuality…we like!

Priyanka Chopra seems to have a passion for item songs – she has grabbed every opportunity presented to her to showcase her dancing skills on the bada parda, the movie script itself be damned! Considering the two numbers that Priyanka has shot this year – Pinky (Zanjeer) and Babli badmaash hai (Shootout At Wadala) – it could be her current favourite assignment! The ‘item girl’ looks resplendently gorgeous in the first look of the special song Ram chahe Leela from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Ram-Leela. The desi girl looks surprisingly different, fresh and very sexy, all decked up in an exotically desi look, a happy change from her jarring outfits and funny dance moves in Pinky and Babli!

The title song of the Ranveer Singh-Deepika Padukone starrer was shot last week, choreographed by Prabhu Deva’s brother Vishnudeva. The leggy lass looks quite the seductress in a white choli and flower-printed dhoti-lehenga, displaying her oomph and those gorgeously long legs in the first look of the song. Pri’s gold-plated payals are also awesome and that new tattoo under her bosom adds an unique tadka - we spotted that line of script when she walked the ramp for Bisou Bisou at Lakme India Fashion Week, but could not tell what it said. Since Ms Chopra has come up with a ‘picture-perfect’ pose on the dance floor, it seems like we will see another SLB ishtyleDola re dola in Ram-Leela!

This sure reminds us of how Katrina Kaif stole all the limelight from Kareena Kapoor by doing an item number – the title track of Bodyguard – with Salman Khan. And Kat did it again with Chikni Chameli in Agneepath, where PC was the female lead, remember? Though Deepika is looking her career best in RL, we wouldn’t be at all surprised if PC stole Dippy’s thunder by wiggling her bits for this one song. What do you think, peeps?

‘Coz this Dhoom:3 babe sure knows how to maintain friendly ties with everyone – be it her ex-flame Salman Khan, co-star Shahrukh Khan or rumoured current beau Ranbir Kapoor

When it comes to acting Katrina Kaif still has a long way to go. Yes, she has quite a few blockbuster films in her kitty, but then they starred Bollywood bigwigs Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Shahrukh Khan who would pull in the audiences anyway, right? But this leggy lass has one skill that is winning her friends and keeping her in the good books of everyone, rivals or not. She has mastered the art of maintaining relationships with industrywallahs…. except with her female colleagues, of course!

Take a look at it from where we have been watching the Chikni Chameli babe. Kat was spotted at Salman’s sister Alvira Agnihotri’s Bandra home where the Khan-daan hosted Ganpati celebrations this year. Even though Sallu and Kat’s prem kahaani ended a long time ago, the babe has managed to stay in the good books of the Dabangg Khan and his ultra-protective, super-supportive family. And then just few days ago, Ms Kaif dropped by her alleged boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor’s residence to attend Ganpati puja there. As it was last day of the elephant headed God stay at RK’s home, the Jab Tak Hain Jaan girl couldn’t afford to miss out a moment to bond with ‘friend’ and family, hai na?

Looks like this B-town babe is no less than a superwoman. She makes sure to be at the right place at the right time. Or maybe she just has good public relations skills. Whatever the reason, Katrina is making every effort to keep her ‘good rapport’ going with all her co-stars and the people who matter in the filmi duniya she now calls home. Wise move, we say, especially considering the fact that she has been losing out on a lot of plum projects due to unavailability of dates, vaghera vaghera. After all, there will be a time when these same friends come in handy – right, Kat?

The power in Hrithik Roshan’s eyes make this an unforgettable prayer to Ganpati…

Vijay Deenanath Chauhan had a hard life. He has trust issues, he has been betrayed, he has seen more bloodshed than joy. But he refuses to give up, fighting to his last breath. And as he gets ready to show the world and his enemies just what he is worth he sings the praises of Lord Ganesha. Agneepath (2012) was a tough film for its makers and for its star, Hrithik Roshan. That effort, intensity and involvement showed in his eyes as he sang

Teri bhakti ka vardaan hai

Jo kamaaye woh dhanwaan hai

Bin kinare ki kashti hai woh

Deva, Tujhse jo anjaan hai

Yun tto mooshak sawari teri

Sab pe hai pehredaari teri

Paap ki aandhiyaan na kaha

Kabhi jyoti na haari teri

Apni taqdeer ka woh, khud sikander huaa re

Bhool ke yeh jahaan re, kiski silien ya haare

Saath paaya tera hey

Deva Shree Ganesha

The song was composed by Ajay-Atul, with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya and sung by Ajay Gogavale. The film was directed by Karan Malhotra and produced by Karan Johar. It starred Hrithik, along with Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt and Rishi Kapoor in his first negative role. It was a huge success, due in some part to Chikni Chameli, a special song danced by Katrina Kaif and sung by Shreya Ghoshal.